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Nano for the terrified
Good news that Science Outside the Square in South Australia is re-running the ‘Nanotech for the terrified!’ event. 200 people attended the first event held earlier this year with over 230 more on a waiting list. Such a turnout for an evening of nanoscience is quite an accomplishment and really exciting. Prof Joe Shapter and Brenton [...]
Filed in Government, Learning, Public Awareness | 22 Jun 2008 | no comments -
Nano in the Movies (revisited)
A recent newsletter from AZoNano.com features a round-up of movies that use principles of the ’small’ and nanotechnology in their story lines. Apart from old favourites I Robot and Terminator 2 (and the cancelled screen adaption of Prey by Michael Crichton) nanotechnology in the movies seems to be fairly thinly spread. We’ve tried extending this list in the past, but it has not been a fruitful search. AZo Nano [...]
Filed in Biotechnology, Nanomaterials, Public Awareness, The Arts | 07 Apr 2008 | one comment -
ICONN2008: That ‘IBM’ Guy
Sarah recently posted on the Bridge8 blog about meeting Don Eigler, IBM fellow from IBM Almaden Research Center (USA) at ICONN08. (Pictured are Mrs Francesca Calati of La Trobe University, Don Eigler, Prof Chennupati Jagadish from ARCNN and Assoc Prof Joe Shapter from Flinders University) So who is Don? You might remember some excitement amongst physicists [...]
Filed in Mol. Manufacturing, People Profiles | 10 Mar 2008 | no comments -
Thinking about Cleantech
Daniel Tune is about to commence his honours year in a Bachelor of Nanotechnology at Flinders University and has been working with Bridge8 over the summer. Daniel’s honours thesis will be examining organic dye-sensitized solar cells. Issues relating to energy are central to Daniel’s interests, so we asked him to write some blogs on [...]
Filed in Energy, Nanomaterials, Social Impacts, Water | 17 Jan 2008 | no comments -
Graffiti Research Lab Masterclass
Interested in nanotechnology and graffiti? Applications are now open for a week-long masterclass presented by the Graffiti Research Lab (NY), from 3-7 March, 2008 at Artspace during the Adelaide Festival. Evan Roth and James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) are dedicated to outfitting street artists with open source technologies for urban communication. GRL have been [...]
Filed in Nanomaterials, The Arts | 17 Oct 2007 | no comments -
Education Day at COMS2007
A number of NanoVic’s activities were featured at the Education Day during the COMS07 conference in Melbourne last week. Dr Peter Binks talked about future workforce implications of nanotechnology education, Francesca Calati and Dr Amanda Clarke presented SHINE and I talked about the futures thinking in the innovative development of SHINE. The NanoBits [...]
Filed in Learning, Public Awareness, Social Impacts, The Arts | 12 Sep 2007 | no comments -
Risk, Response & Regulation
Last week, Peter & I attended a presentation at the CSIRO Niche Manufacturing Flagship by Dr Andrew Maynard of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in the US. As well as being an outstanding presentation, there were a couple of things that stood out. Some I’ve blogged for Bridge8, but here I’ll [...]
Filed in Nanomaterials, People Profiles, Public Awareness, Social Impacts | 10 Sep 2007 | no comments -
Nano in The Age
The Age has published an overview of nanotechnology in Australia ahead of the COMS2007 conference to be held in Melbourne next week. Science Reporter Chee Chee Leung has written the in-depth article titled ‘Think Small’ and included a range of perspectives from different organisations (including NanoVic) as well as considering different viewpoints as to the [...]
Filed in Consumer Products, Learning, Nanomaterials, Public Awareness, Social Impacts | 31 Aug 2007 | one comment -
The Power of Ten
We sometimes struggle to effectively describe the nanoscale world. Here is an animation from Molecular Expressions at the Florida State Univeristy that takes you in leaps of powers of ten from light years to 100 attometers (that’s 10-16 metres). What I found most interesting is how familiar everything looks until you reach the nanometre scale. [...]
Filed in Learning, Public Awareness | 16 Jul 2007 | no comments -
Better than a gecko
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and the University of Akron - Ohio, have created synthetic “gecko tape” (see news article pointed out by the Foresight Nanotech Institute). The team manufactured a polymer surface covered in carbon nanotubes that imitate the microscopic hairs on a gecko’s footpad. These work by forming [...]
Filed in Learning, Nanomaterials | 28 Jun 2007 | no comments